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Show BELGIUM'S KING PA$fe AWAY On of th Beat Known Ffr ln th Old World Lout In Irvytfl With Orlm Rtap.r. Hritianla King Leopold fed nt 2:.1'i o'cliM-k Thuraday mortic. hla aged and wnatod IhhI y belm unable to aland the atruln put up I' by tilt operation i-crfornird n Ir" duy ago. The rollnime iM-rurrcd ivl'lenly. uiol at a moment when ibe doctor ermlngly had the greiwen lopta fori bla recovery. Tbo end riime quickly and . ifier a apoll of wenkm aa, peacorullf. Trlnre Allan arrived at the di-nlli tut about incut) live mliiuloa later. The klng'u ciKilnoaa nu'd rixrag In, tho heroic alniKglo won the iilmtra-1 iilmtra-1 1' Hi of nil. for at no lime d'dtt ccm to four the reaull. Now that be la dead It la believed that ho u able to anrvlvo ao long by the i-liotr force or hla meiilullly. Leopold , king of iho FMitlana, ami of Hie Into King Leopold I., upon whoae death on iN-comher I n. U'.'i. he' auccoeileil to the throne, waa born at lllllaaela, April V, 1S:I7. Illl father wua tho former Prince of Sue-Co-j liuigdoihn and hla mother prlnccaa Uiulao. ilauuhlor of King Ixiuli I'hll-, llppe of Franco. t'n Aiit-mt 22, IS.'..!, ho married Iho Archducheaa Marie llrnrlotla, diiughtor of Archduke Joaeph of A nutria. nu-tria. Hho died Hcplcmhcr It. '."- There wore three daughter born of i thla union ljuilae, Hleph,ia nud i Clementine, i 1'lui two i lr prln- uato hnvo ''tBir(jit4i.rrnml meirlulbor. bin (l.bo ntino nluatned In bla atfertloua. I There being no Sheet liereldtary I heir, the rrown iiihm to I'rlnre Albert, Al-bert, the only ron of Leopold' brnlh or. tho late Phllllpe, Count of Flun-'lera. Flun-'lera. Tho now uionatrh waa born on April H. IST.'i. uud n October ' S, llmii. married Prim-cm Kllahoih nf linvarlu. They have three children. I't'nco Leopold. H year old; Prince Charloa. tl ycara old. and Prince Verio Joae. :i yoata old While ulwnya c.uiplcimii before tin public on account of the nature of !il private life, pan Irulnrly In n-retit yoara. King l-ojudd haa n-ct-ntly bad much of tho world agiiluat hlin. on account of hla nt tltuiU- towarda the Ciiiiko Independent Stale. Ill great luteroat lay In the deielopniont of that country, for be ih practically practi-cally alio founder of It ami waa III ruling uoverelgn. |